St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-28
NgEN pOa.AS DAY.
Citizens of the Flour City Come by
Thousands and Tens of Thou.
sands Headed by City Officials


Citizens OF the Flour City Come by
Thousands and Tens of Thou.
sands Headed by City Officials
and pOiice.
Yesterday was the eliminating climax
Of the carnival season. and the day the
managers had designated Minneapolis day.
Minneapolis talked nothing but ice palace
yesterday; weather, tobogganng, corner
lots. quotations-all subjects were ban
ished and st. Paul itself could not have
discussed her pet project more kindly and
enthusiastically than did the residents of the
Flour City. They not only talked, they
came. Early in the day it became neces-
sary to add extra coaches to the regular
Short line trains. and toward evening
''doube-headers' pulling from twelve to
eighteen cars came over all lines, loaded
with MinneapOlitanS eager for the fray by
which brave men under the leadership of
Mayor Ames were to capture the ice pal
ace. 1t Is useless to attempt an
estimate of the numbers of the
crowd, for besides the train
loads, thousands came in carriages, and
vehicles of every sort, and some of the
more enthusiastic and less fortunate even
walked. Twenty-Five thousand is a con
Servative guess. and the number would
neapoliS people Oyer1owed the grounds OF
the palace early in the evening, and during
the bombardment nothing but Superlative
praise was heard from them. Mayor Ames
and his party did not arrive until $50.
His honor was accompanied by most of the
city officers and several aldermen. The
Flambeau club was at the station to act as
escort to the guests. The line was quickly
formed in the fOlIoWiDU order.
The Flambeau club.
Mayor Ames
Plummer Drum corps.
Company Minneapolis Police under Capt
McKernan.
Makwa Toboggan club, fifty.six men, officered
by CAPT. Palmer, First Lieut.. w. P.
Hallowell, Second Lieut.. J. 7.
Rand; "First-and-a-half
Eleut." Yawkey.
North Star Drum corps.
The North Star Toboggan club. forty-eight
men, oficered by Capt. Shoty, First
Lieut.. Larpenter, Second
Lieut.. Thompson.
In this order the visitors joined the
parade at tine city hall.
GOING HOME
Thirty thousand people passed through
the union depot last night. between the
hours of 1880 and 1870, to take trains tC
Minneapolis and elsewhere. After the
stOrmng the rush was so great that the sta
ton agent and his assistants were unable tc
control the crowds, and all the gates had tC
be thrown open to permit the people to ge1
upon the platforms to save being crushed
to death. SiXty-four coaches were loadeC
in less than twenty minutes, the people be-
ing packed into the cars like sardines in
box. Over nine hundred tickets were takel
up i'll one train alone between
st. Paul and Minneapolis. The last train
for the Flour City left the depot at 1870
and it was crowded. Many of the visitors
who came from other towns than Mime
apoliS missed their trains, and, bens
unable to secure lodgings at any of thu
hotels or boarding houses were compelled
to spend the night in the depot. In tn.
waiting rooms we're people twisted up int
all manner of shapes upon the benches
trying to sleep. In the ladies' waitins
room many members of the gentler Sc,
were found. They looked exceedingly woe
begone, and were evidently tired and dis
gusted.